British Muslim politics examining Pakistani biraderi networks
Although there has emerged a huge interest in the Muslim communities in Britain since 9/11 and 7/7, few academic studies have focused on the political processes within Muslim communities and the impacts these have on civic engagement. This book examines the political biographies and religious identi...
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
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| Series: | Palgrave politics of identity and citizenship series
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Table of Contents:
- Post-war Pakistani migration and settlement
- Politics of immigration and settlement politics: state responses, masculine corporatism and biraderi leadership
- Rushdie, the limits of biraderi politics and Muslim organisations
- Biraderis and biraderi-politicking in contemporary politics
- Changing identities and biraderi across generations
- Young Pakistanis in the public sphere: "new" community organisations
- From cultural religion to political Islam and back again